The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday will hold negotiations in Ankara with US Secretary of State Condolizes Rice . The key topic of negotiations will be preparations for the Russian-American summit in Bratislava.

The Minister of Transport Igor Levitin will arrive in Tbilisi for the funeral of the Prime Minister of Georgia Zurab, reports RIA Novosti . The mourning ceremony will be held on Sunday, February 6. Burning will be buried in the Didubsky Pantheon. Tbilisi expect delegations from Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, the USA , other countries, as well as representatives of international organizations.

The new government of Ukraine at the first meeting decided to return the Mining and Metallurgical Plant Krivorozhstal to state property, NTV reports. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said that all documents on the privatization of the largest manufacturer of metal products in Ukraine were canceled and a new competition will be held. Krivorozhstal bought two Ukrainian entrepreneurs last year. One of them is Viktor Pinchuk, the son -in -law of the then President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.

The investigation by the terrorist attack in the city of Gorus, perfect on February 1, has new versions of the explosion and soon they will be published, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax .

On the outskirts of Makhachkala, a special operation for the search and blocking of militants is carried out, the representative of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan said. One serviceman of the internal troops was wounded. According to the 1st City Hospital, the policeman was taken to this medical institution with a wound in the leg. Currently, the wounded is undergoing an operation. “There are no threats to life,” the reception department said.

In Georgia, in connection with the tragic death of the Prime Minister of Zurab and the death of three police officers during a terrorist attack in the city of Gori, on February 5 and 6, they were declared days of mourning. The corresponding decree was signed by President of the country Mikhail Saakashvili, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press service of the President of Georgia, according to the decree, all entertainment events are canceled these days.

The Pentagon budget is planned to be increased in 2006. By 4.8% - up to 419.3 billion dollars, reports RBC . It is expected that such a proposal to increase the budget of the US Department of Defense for 2005-2006 The head of the White House George Bush will submit to the Congress on February 7. According to the document, Bush intends to request a Pentagon from Congress next year 419.3 billion dollars. This is $ 19.2 billion (4.8%) more military spending in the budget this year.

The United States rejected the plan proposed by Great Britain, designed to increase the help of third world countries, RBC reports. The plan was presented at the London meeting of the ministers of the Big Seven countries by the British Finance Minister Gordon Brown, and it consisted in creating an international funding fund of $ 100 billion. Brown also insisted on additional assistance and debts to write off Africa countries.

The Prosecutor General of Georgia is considered premature to talk about any violations of the Rules of the Prime Minister’s security by personal guarding the Zurab, RIA Novosti reports. “It is impossible to talk about the responsibility of personal protection at this stage. The investigation is carried out only a few days, and thorough information will be known to the public,” said Deputy Prosecutor General Georgy Dzhanashiya.

In the Silkovsky district of Chechnya, the base of the militants was discovered and destroyed, Interfax reports. This was stated on Saturday at the temporary press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the North Caucasus region.

The influence of cyclone, acting in Kamchatka for more than four days, weakened, a storm warning for all emergency call services and life support was shot, Gazeta.Ru reports. According to the Kamchatka Hydrometeorological Center, at present, winds of winds up to 20-22 meters per second are still fixed on the coast, no intensive precipitation is observed. In Petropavlovsk, a state of emergency will operate until Monday. Public utilities eliminate the consequences.

In Chechnya, two participants in illegal armed groups were detained, who committed the federal forces of the attack on local residents under the guise of employees of federal forces, a source at the headquarters of the 47th separate brigade of operational purposes said on Saturday. It is reported by "Interfax." The identities of the detainees are established: this is Movsar Yupaev, born in 1981 and Akhmed Isambaev, born in 1986.

At the Irkutsk airport, the An-24 aircraft made an emergency landing, on board of which there were 20 athletes of the local hockey team with the Baikal-Energy ball and six crew members, RIA Novosti reports. When taking off on the windshield of the aircraft, a crack formed. The crew commander decided on an emergency landing. In alarm, emergency services of the city were raised. The landing was safely.

In Venezuela, all McDonald's quick restaurants are closed, RBC reports with reference to the Associated Press. This decision was made by the country's tax police, who believe that McDonald's maliciously and for a long time violated the country's tax legislation. There is no official comment from the company's representatives yet. Venezuela operates 80 McDonald's restaurants.

The fragments of the passenger airliner Boeing-737 were discovered southeast of Kabula, the press secretary of the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan Zahar Azimi told Reuters . The fall of the fall was discovered by NATO search helicopter. “We managed to establish that the plane crashed into a gang,” said a representative of the defense department. He explained that we are talking about a village located 35 km southeast of the capital.